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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2011 Sep 8;32(33):8676–8683. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.07.072

Figure 1. Histomorphometric analysis of pBABE-hygro group and pBABE-Satb2 group.

Figure 1

The photomicrograph of H&E stained tissue sections of pBABE-Satb2 group (a) and pBABE-hygro group (b) 1 week after the implantation showed that newly formed bone could be observed 7 days after implantation, and activated cells were well organized around the implants. The pBABE-Satb2 group showed a 27% increase in the newly formed bone area when compared with the pBABE-hygro group (c). The photomicrograph of H&E stained tissue sections of pBABE-Satb2 group (d) and pBABE-hygro group (e) 3 weeks after implantation showed that woven bone was replaced by better organized lamellar bone. Histomorphometric analysis showed that both the newly formed bone area and the percentage of bone-to-implant contact were increase by 60% in the pBABE-Satb2 group when compared with those in the pBABE-hygro group (f). Data were expressed as mean±SEM (n=6–8). *p<0.05, pBABE-hygro vs. pBABE-Satb2.